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The fbi and dhas believe that members of the movement likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year. do we have a growing terror threat here at home that people are now the focused enough on? >> yeah. >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> that's a good question, don. is that for me? >> that's for chris. >> yeah, that's a good question, don. i question whether we're beginning to see a resurgence of the domestic terrorist groups of the '90s. the '90s were a very active period for neo-nazi, militias, anti-government and we sort of took our eye off the ball there. we -- i should...

Weekend. a local citizen and two fellow officers. we certainly have regrets. it was a tragic tragic weekend. we had ingredients and worked out a security plan to bring the groups in and n separate entrances. again, they decided to change the plan and entered the park in different directions. >> i want to discuss all of there now with cedric alexander, the author of the new guardians and richard cohen, the president of the southern poverty law center. and chris weeker. i got to tell you, before i get to the police response, the police would not have been out there had these mateful people not e...

Chief and that community and its leadership has to respond to really very challenging questions as to how much did you know and why did you not get in between these two groups prior to the violence that took place. >> chris, so jason kesler who is a white supremacist who organized the unite the right rally released a statement saying the blame for today's violence lies primarily with the charlottesville government officials and the police officials who failed to to provide for their safety. if they had started to engage with these pro efforts as we saw, a lot of them came very heavily armed as...

Situations here that continue to perpetuate this whole idea that certain groups of people are treated very different than others. but getting back to the whole point, quite frankly, in regards to whether police were intimidated by there group or not, i would tend to say no, they were not. i would tend to say the question i would ask was preparation made for this type of crowd. there was clear evidence, don, they were going to have problems with this crowd. and should better precaution could have been taken here again, i don't want to second-guess this chief. i know what it's like to be in that...

When these twos groups come together, there's a high potential something bad to happen. >> chris, i just want people to be clear about the pictures we're showing. those were the members of this group who came there. the unite the right who were heavily arm right there. those weren't pictures of police officers. sorry, yis, go on. i wanted to be clear for the audience. >> yeah, i hate arm chair quarterback law enforcement in general. there should have been anticipation there were going to be armed individuals at this event that there was going to be a high potential for violence. that's when yo...